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Title Monastic sign languages / edited by Jean Umiker-Sebeok, Thomas A. Sebeok
Published Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 618 pages)
Series Approaches to Semiotics, 0066-5576 ; 76
Approaches to semiotics ; 76.
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- REFERENCES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I MONASTIC SIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES -- Le Langage des Silencieux -- Le Langage par Signes Chez les Moines -- Le Langage par Gestes Chez les Moines -- Étude D'Un Corpus: Dictionnaire Du Langage Gestuel Chez les Trappistes -- Two Anglo-Saxon Sign Systems Compared -- Cistercian Sign Language -- Sign Language and the Monastic Use of Lexical Gestures -- II. SAMPLE FRAGMENTS OF CONFIGURATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS -- Latin Texts -- De Notitia Signorum -- De Silentio -- De Silentio -- Ars Signorum Cisterciensium -- Significare -- De Silentio & Signis -- Signa Secundum Ordinem Cisterciensem -- Texts in Other Languages -- Zur Geschichte der Zeichensprache -- A Table of Signs Used During the Hours of Silence -- I „Signa Loquendi“ Cistercensi -- Livros de Sinais dos Cistercienses Portugueses -- Vocabulaire des Signes Pratiqués dans L'Ordre de Cîteaux -- INDEX OF NAMES -- Backmatter
Notes Originally published in 1987
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English, French, Latin, German, and Portuguese
Online resource; title from cover (de Gruyter ReferenceGlobal, viewed December 13, 2011)
Subject Sign language.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Language
Sign Language
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Language
Sign language
Mönchtum
Zeichensprache
Form Electronic book
Author Umiker-Sebeok, Donna Jean
Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001.
ISBN 9783110109276
3110109271
9783110865028
3110865025